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...concentrators, this is a large part of the experience they hope to gain by joining HDRB. “You can lecture about the topic as much as you want. Lecturing is not as strong a way of teaching as actually [being] involved with research,” says Edward Daniel...
Willam J. Anderson, the undergraduate curriculum development manager for HDRB, stresses the benefits of such an “active approach...
...intersection between lab and classroom even applies to SCRB 10, the department’s introductory course. “We were learning from people who really were out there empirically gathering data,” says Samuel H. Marrs ’12, an HDRB concentrator. “They were actually doing the work and showing us, or showing us colleague’s work—all contemporary, all 2000 and above. Sometimes we’d even look at things that were 2009, a couple months prior...
Despite its success so far—the benchmark Q rating for SCRB courses is 4.4, significantly than higher than the 3.9 held by the natural sciences division—HDRB nevertheless struggles as a new and relatively small concentration. Kraemer expressed concern about getting into a lab class for the spring semester, which only had a limited number of spots; other students via Q Guide have mentioned that the courses are enlightening, but unstructured...
While many of the classes are still being fine-tuned after their first runs, the HDRB faculty have pushed to establish strong connections with their concentrators. “They really want to hit the ground running. I like this a lot because they really try to make sure we are taken care of,” says Daniel...